If you’ve been to London you will know about the London Eye. It a huge ferriswheel that takes you on a 30 minute spectacular ride. The rotation is very slow so you never feel like you stepped onto a rollercoaster or anything. It’s a very graceful and smooth ride. Needless to say the views are amazing.
In this shot you can see the Houses of Parliament in the bottom right. The water is the River Thames of course.
The “pods” take up to about 15 people each and there is just ONE red colored one, we happened to ride in the pod next to it so this provided some cool contract again the sky.
You are not allowed to take tripods up so hand-held shooting only. As you are completely enclosed in glass, reflections can be somewhat of a challenge, but with some care you can get awesome pictures.
I don’t do heights very well, my lovely wife Linda, made me go!
I was glad she did though as the smooth ride (and the enclosed capsule) made it very enjoyable and I ended up loving every minute! I’d take the ride again . . .